Why MSP Clients Don’t Get What They Pay for in Cloud Computing IaaS

June 30, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from MSPMentor. Author: Editorial Staff.

The great cloud migration has begun in earnest. 2014 was a pivotal year when the clients of MSPs started pushing back and demanding cloud computing solutions over on-premise capital expenditures. It’s simply not enough to be an MSP or VAR and sell only servers, storage and hardware upgrades. These days, business owners know a great deal about the cloud offerings available. Additionally, the early fears of cloud security are being diminished by the countless success stories and case studies of big name companies moving to the cloud.

MSPs have a few options–more SaaS solutions or delaying the inevitable replacement of on-premise infrastructure with cloud infrastructure. Sure, email and CRM migrations to the cloud were painful, and many MSPs experienced margin loss. However, today, in 2015, most of those projects are viewed as a success…

The perception is that on-premise-to-cloud infrastructure migrations are complicated, but with second-generation cloud providers, such as ProfitBricks, migrations are now painless…

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